Drilling

Anti-Arctic Drilling Activists Swarm The White House

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Arctic Drilling, Video, Shell Arctic Drilling, 350.Org, Alaska Wilderness League, Leah Donahey, Friends of the Earth, Elections 2012, Drilling, Obama Administration, Chukchi Sea, Sierra Club, Obama Drilling, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Because sometimes to get your point across you need to dress up as an Arctic Tern, scores of anti-drilling activists on Tuesday gathered...

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Deep-Sea Drilling Record Shattered By Research Vessel

AP | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Deepest Hole, Video, World Record, Japanese Research Vessel, Undersea Exploration, Jamstec, Chikyu, Deep Sea, Drilling, Mariana Trench, Glomar Challenger, Science News

TOKYO -- A Japanese deep-sea drilling probe has set a new world record for depth, reaching 7,740 meters (25,400 feet) below the sea surface, the resea...

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North Sea Well Blow-out Spikes Carbon Emissions

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Fuel, Energy, Europe, Oil Drilling, Statistically Speaking, Leak, Oil, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Drilling, Elgin Platform, North Sea, Blowout, Offshore Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Natural Gas, Green News

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok. Déjà vu? Not quite, but certainly some echoes of BP's Deepwater Horizon incident from two years ago. On March 25, the...

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Obama Pressures Congress To End Big Subsidies

AP | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, Gas Prices, Video, Oil Tax, Obama Oil Taxes, Oil Subsidies, Obama Energy, Drilling, Obama Oil Subsidies, Obama Drilling, Offshore Drilling, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's plea to Congress to end $4 billion in tax subsidies to oil companies was rebuffed Thursday as the Senate t...

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Obama Calls On Congress To End Huge Subsidy

AP | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Obama Energy Policy, Obama Oil, Video, Oil Tax Breaks, Drilling, Obama Oil Tax Breaks, Obama Oil Tax Subsidies, Barack Obama, Obama Oil Tax, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is renewing his call for Congress to end tax breaks to oil companies. In a Rose Garden speech Thursday, Obama wi...

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Romney Economists Back Away From Romney Gas Price Rhetoric

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Obama Gas Prices, Video, Crude Oil, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Drilling, Oil Prices, Obama Oil Prices, Romney Gas Prices, Keystone XL, Romney, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney on the campaign trail has chided President Barack Obama for failing to curb prices at the pump, even as prominent economists...

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Energy Secretary Gives Himself A Grade For Department's Handling Of Oil And Gas Prices

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Oil Prcies, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Steven Chu, Drilling, Obama Oil Prices, Imported Oil, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Paul Krugman, Department of Energy, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday that the Department of Energy deserves "better than an A-" for its role in reducing the price o...

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McKibben's Extreme Energy: Why Not Frack?

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 05.06.2012

Still, if we forgo natural gas, what are our alternatives? And that was my stance too until I read McKibben's article. Now I'm fiercely on the environmental side. How did he persuade me? His masterful command of language.

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WATCH: Josh Fox On Why He Was Arrested

HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Energy, Josh Fox, Fracking, Josh Fox Fracking, Josh Fox Republicans, Gasland, Gasland 2, Gasland Director, Josh Fox Arrest, Gasland Sequel, Video, Mining, Drilling, Josh Fox Obama, Natural Gas, Josh Fox Arrested, Josh Fox Gasland, Green News

Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox and his crew on Wednesday walked into a congressional hearing on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a controversial n...

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Obama Unveils Energy Initiatives In Las Vegas

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Natural Gas Corridor, Campaign 2012, Foreign Oil, Fossil Fuels, Obama Energy, Bp-Drilling-Gulf-of-Mexico, President Barack Obama, Drilling, Renewable Energy, Obama Administration, Natural Gas, Energy Policy, State of the Union, Barack Obama, Green News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama began laying out his "all-of-the-above" energy strategies in a campaign-styled stop in Las Vegas on Thursday, exp...

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Obama Takes To Nevada And Colorado To Talk Energy, Expanding Drilling In The Gulf

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.27.2012

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will double down on his "all-of-the-above" energy strategy on Thursday when he announces the Interior Department'...

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Obama's Keystone XL Pipeline Rejection Brings 'High Water Mark' Of Respect From Some Groups

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Video, Smog, Nuclear Power, Nrdc, President Barack Obama, Drilling, Obama Green Groups, Obama, Keystone XL Protests, Keystone XL, Bill Mckibben, Sierra Club, Keystone Decision, State Department, Clean Economy, Green News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's decision Wednesday to deny a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline gave environmental advocates the rarest of sen...

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BP's Bad Timing

Jackie Savitz | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Bp, Interior Department, Politics, Dolphins, Oil Drilling, Green, Drilling, Our Oceans, British Petroleum, Oceans, BP Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, Transocean, Barack Obama, Wildlife, Offshore Drilling, Green News

If you were BP, wouldn't you wait for the right time to go back to the U.S. government to ask for more permits to drill? What would seem like a good time to do that?

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Jon Huntsman's Jobs Plan Cements Shift From Green Republican To Energy Hawk

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Republican Presidential Candidate, Jon Huntsman, Oil Drilling, Oil Imports, Opec, Jon Huntsman Jobs Plan, Elections 2012, Drilling, Jobs Plan, Environmentalist, Global Warming, Politics News

WASHINGTON – As recently as June, an environmental website declared former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman the "greenest" of the Republican presidential cand...

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Dodd-Frank Provision: Human Rights Groups Call On SEC To Finalize Rule

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Natural Resources, Extraction, Dodd-Frank, Oil Drilling, International Business, Section 1504, Mining, Africa, Drilling, Ghana, Resource Extraction, Securities and Exchange Commission, Politics News

A major international anti-corruption provision in the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation remains stalled at the Securities and Exchange Commissi...

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Administration's Top Drilling Official Spars With House GOP Over Gulf Oil Spill Response

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Oil Spill Response, Oil Spill, Haley Barbour, House GOP, Darrell Issa, Michael Bromwich, Drilling, Elections 2012, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Offshore Drilling, Green News

WASHINGTON -- The Interior Department's Michael Bromwich on Thursday pushed back against GOP lawmakers who denounced the administration for its respon...

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The Return of Drill, Baby, Drill

Steven Cohen | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Environment, Obama Energy Policy, Renewable Energy, Oil, Energy Policy, Solar Power, Barack Obama, Gas Prices, Oil Drilling, Drilling, Green News

With gasoline prices now north of $4 a gallon, and the summer driving season upon us, politicians have predictably resumed pandering to the oil industry and those who think we can drill our way back to cheaper energy.

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Are the New Subsea Oilwell Containment Companies Ready? Maybe

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Energy, Helix Fast Reponse System, Bp, Deepwater, Gulf of Mexico, Marine Well Containment Company, Helix Energy Solutions, Drilling, Blowout, Offshore Drilling, Boemre, BP Oil Spill, Hfrs, Gulf Oil Spill, Mwcc, Green News

Besides the obvious weaknesses in subsea BOPs, and hence well control, I am concerned about having competing groups doing subsea containment.

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Budget Wars in Washington: The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Just as the futuristic Jetsons and the Stone Age Flintstones met up in the 1987 cartoon, "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones," two camps with wildly different mindsets are meeting on the floors of Congress.

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Did the Gas Industry Censor the Wall Street Journal?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Fox, Gasland, Mark Ruffalo, Fracking, Water, Gas Drilling, Environment, Drilling, Oscars, Wall Street Journal, Natural Gas, Oscars 2011, Green News

When the article was published on Friday night, it was the first time an industry spokesperson deployed a shift in strategy from the industry's standard denials.

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Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Consequences

Michael Bendetson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Hosni Mubarak, Hugo Chavez, Gm, Venezuela, Gulf Oil Spill, Fda, Saudi Arabia, Ford, Drilling, Cafe, Oil, Department of Transportation, Politics News

In an era where the Federal Government has seen some of its lowest approval ratings in history, it has become all too easy for Americans to relegate blame to their elected officials. Our problem are more complex.

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Real Regulatory Reform... or Not

Marty Robins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Regulatory Reform, Economic Recovery, Regulations, Energy Policy, Drilling, Unemployment, Bp, Business News

We don't need studies and task forces to remake the regulatory environment we just need the common sense to tell regulators to get their own house in order before worrying about someone else's.

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Energy Group Sues Feds For Stopping Fast-Track Drilling Approval In West

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil and Gas, Interior Department Drilling on Public Lands, Western Energy Alliance, Drilling Lawsuit, Drilling, Blm, Denver News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A petroleum industry group has filed a lawsuit saying federal land managers lacked authority to stop fast-track approval of oil...

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Black Tie Protesters at Waldorf Greet Pa. Governor-Elect

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pennsyvlania Society, Gasland, Marcellus Shale, Fracking, Governor Paterson, Waldorf Astoria, Water Contamination, Water, Alison Rose Levy, Drilling, Hydrofracking, Tom Corbett, Hydraulic Fracturing, Green News

Usually the Pennsylvania Society weekend retreat passes un-noticed by most New York residents, but this time New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians came out in force to protest the gathering, at which the Energy Association and the Marcellus Shale Coalition hosted after-parties.

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What if the Gas Industry Really Wanted to Make Fracking Safer?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Fox, Fracking, Water, Health, Alison Rose Levy, Gasland, Drilling, Environmentalism, New York, New York City, Politics News

Citizens of states where fracking is pending or present, would be well-advised to read Ingraffea's letter to learn what they are in for, should fracking proceed.

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